ByteDance Proposes "Parker" for Linux: Multiple Kernels Running Simultaneously

stusmall 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This reminds me of https://barrelfish.org/

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qafy 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ok, but why?

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SpaghettiCthulu 3 hours ago | parent [-]

From TFA:

> The primary use case in mind for parker is on the machines with high core counts, where scalability concerns may arise. Once started, there is no communication between kernel instances. In other words, they share nothing thus improve scalability.

	▲	nerdsniper 7 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Curious what benefits this would have vs the usual virtualization? VM’s are the typical strategy for subdividing machines with high core counts into multiple kernels, and seems to work well enough?